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Torn Apart: How the Child Welfare System Destroys Black Families—and How Abolition Can Build a Safer World (Audiobook)
by (shelved 8 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.53 — 702 ratings — published
Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.35 — 318 ratings — published
We Were Once a Family: A Story of Love, Death, and Child Removal in America (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.29 — 9,249 ratings — published 2023
The Lost Children of Wilder: The Epic Struggle to Change Foster Care (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.16 — 497 ratings — published 2001
To the End of June: The Intimate Life of American Foster Care (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.02 — 3,528 ratings — published 2013
Turning Stones: My Days and Nights with Children at Risk (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.12 — 886 ratings — published 1996
A Child Called "It" (Dave Pelzer, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.14 — 464,380 ratings — published 1995
The Boy Who Was Raised as a Dog: And Other Stories from a Child Psychiatrist's Notebook (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.58 — 43,087 ratings — published 2007
"When the Welfare People Come": Race and Class in the US Child Protection System (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 3.98 — 114 ratings — published
The Glass Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,386,774 ratings — published 2005
The Baby Thief: The Untold Story of Georgia Tann, the Baby Seller Who Corrupted Adoption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 3.59 — 3,176 ratings — published 2009
Somebody's Children: The Politics of Transracial and Transnational Adoption (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.10 — 67 ratings — published 2012
Wards of the State: The Long Shadow of American Foster Care (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,413 ratings — published
Stranger Care (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,710 ratings — published 2021
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.34 — 295,866 ratings — published 2014
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.20 — 90,151 ratings — published 1997
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,917,518 ratings — published 2018
The Language of Flowers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.10 — 235,018 ratings — published 2011
Three Little Words (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.20 — 17,713 ratings — published 2008
Push (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 3.88 — 59,900 ratings — published 1996
Daughters of the Bamboo Grove: From China to America, a True Story of Abduction, Adoption, and Separated Twins (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.23 — 6,960 ratings — published 2025
The Sun Won't Come Out Tomorrow: The Dark History of American Orphanhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 3.74 — 112 ratings — published 2025
No Matter How Loud I Shout: A Year in the Life of Juvenile Court (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.18 — 978 ratings — published 1996
Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.16 — 6,261 ratings — published 2024
Demon Copperhead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.46 — 850,373 ratings — published 2022
Confronting the Racist Legacy of the American Child Welfare System: The Case for Abolition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.21 — 24 ratings — published
Safe: A Memoir of Fatherhood, Foster Care, and the Risks We Take for Family (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.41 — 686 ratings — published
Relinquished: The Politics of Adoption and the Privilege of American Motherhood (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,467 ratings — published 2024
Broken: Transforming Child Protective Services―Notes of a Former Caseworker – A Groundbreaking Investigation of Systemic Racism in Foster Care and Black Families (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.19 — 564 ratings — published 2024
The House in the Cerulean Sea (Cerulean Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,042,754 ratings — published 2020
Separated: Inside An American Tragedy (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.17 — 2,795 ratings — published 2020
Working with Adoptive Parents: Research, Theory, and Therapeutic Interventions (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 5.00 — 4 ratings — published 2013
Finding Fernanda: Two Mothers, One Child, and a Cross-Border Search for Truth (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.24 — 237 ratings — published 2011
Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.70 — 19,827 ratings — published 2021
Little Fires Everywhere (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,333,202 ratings — published 2017
What Happened To You?: Conversations on Trauma, Resilience, and Healing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.41 — 112,562 ratings — published 2021
Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.35 — 6,823 ratings — published 2016
News of the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.08 — 113,484 ratings — published 2016
My Side of the Mountain (Mountain, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.10 — 86,729 ratings — published 1959
The Tiger's Child: What Ever Happened to Sheila? – A Teacher's True Story: The Sequel About a Silent Girl's Transformation (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.07 — 6,645 ratings — published 1995
The Children Money Can Buy: Stories from the Frontlines of Foster Care and Adoption (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 3.65 — 124 ratings — published
The Primal Wound: Understanding The Adopted Child (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,855 ratings — published 1993
Taking Children: A History of American Terror (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.12 — 138 ratings — published 2020
Garbage Bag Suitcase: A Memoir (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,049 ratings — published 2016
The Book of David: How Preserving Families Can Cost Children's Lives (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 3.65 — 60 ratings — published 1996
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,461,592 ratings — published 2017
Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.29 — 246,523 ratings — published 2012
Before We Were Yours (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.40 — 743,773 ratings — published 2017
Somebody Else's Kids (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 4.28 — 7,239 ratings — published 1981
A Stolen Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as child-welfare)
avg rating 3.97 — 149,527 ratings — published 2011
“Light-touch government works more efficiently in the presence of social capital. Police close more cases when citizens monitor neighborhood comings and goings. Child welfare departments do a better job of “family preservation” when neighbors and relatives provide social support to troubled parents. Public schools teach better when parents volunteer in classrooms and ensure that kids do their homework. When community involvement is lacking, the burdens on government employees—bureaucrats, social workers, teachers, and so forth—are that much greater and success that much more elusive.”
― Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community
― Bowling Alone: The Collapse and Revival of American Community
“To write about a child is to reckon with other childhoods.”
― Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City
― Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City
